Ian Hunt
@ianhunt.bsky.social
art, architecture, environment & politics | former UKHE worker | GPEW (but here as a civilian) | chief distractions: novels, poetry, botany, buildings | he/him | Green Light (2006) https://www.barquepress.com/media/12/pdf/ian_hunt_green_light.pdf
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This: “they [the students] also have to care about themselves, enough to believe in their own significance.”
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
November 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This: “they [the students] also have to care about themselves, enough to believe in their own significance.”
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The 3rd annual 24 hour Global Marathon of Solidarity Reading begins this Saturday 29 November. A continuous gathering of poets, writers, artists around the world standing in solidarity with Palestine.
Join live:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGUg...
The 3rd annual 24 hour Global Marathon of Solidarity Reading begins this Saturday 29 November. A continuous gathering of poets, writers, artists around the world standing in solidarity with Palestine.
Join live:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGUg...
Global Reading for Freedom of Expression and Solidarity with Palestine (3rd Iteration)
YouTube video by Pamenar Press
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November 26, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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The 3rd annual 24 hour Global Marathon of Solidarity Reading begins this Saturday 29 November. A continuous gathering of poets, writers, artists around the world standing in solidarity with Palestine.
Join live:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGUg...
The 3rd annual 24 hour Global Marathon of Solidarity Reading begins this Saturday 29 November. A continuous gathering of poets, writers, artists around the world standing in solidarity with Palestine.
Join live:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGUg...
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Launch event for the Modern British City at
@c20society.bsky.social on 26th of January: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
Do come!
The book is out with @lhartbooks.bsky.social next week.
@c20society.bsky.social on 26th of January: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
Do come!
The book is out with @lhartbooks.bsky.social next week.
November 21, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Launch event for the Modern British City at
@c20society.bsky.social on 26th of January: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
Do come!
The book is out with @lhartbooks.bsky.social next week.
@c20society.bsky.social on 26th of January: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
Do come!
The book is out with @lhartbooks.bsky.social next week.
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Gaza after the ceasefire is defined by the ‘yellow line’ — drawn by Israel, and dividing the strip in two.
Our evidence suggests that Israel seeks to make the line permanent, as ‘reconstruction’ plans normalise this new stage of Israel’s occupation: frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/ceasefire
Our evidence suggests that Israel seeks to make the line permanent, as ‘reconstruction’ plans normalise this new stage of Israel’s occupation: frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/ceasefire
November 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Gaza after the ceasefire is defined by the ‘yellow line’ — drawn by Israel, and dividing the strip in two.
Our evidence suggests that Israel seeks to make the line permanent, as ‘reconstruction’ plans normalise this new stage of Israel’s occupation: frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/ceasefire
Our evidence suggests that Israel seeks to make the line permanent, as ‘reconstruction’ plans normalise this new stage of Israel’s occupation: frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/ceasefire
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"We found that migrant men tend to experience stress in the form of pressure and migrant women in the form of tiredness." theconversation.com/high-rise-li...
High-rise living in Nairobi’s Pipeline estate is stressful – how men and women cope
Men and women experience and try to cope with stress in diverse ways.
theconversation.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:50 AM
"We found that migrant men tend to experience stress in the form of pressure and migrant women in the form of tiredness." theconversation.com/high-rise-li...
Amid the tributes I had missed this one, by Derek Attridge, a long-term supporter of Zoë Wicomb and a co-editor, with Kai Easton, of the Routledge book about her -- 'Zoë Wicomb and the Translocal' #SouthAfrica #writing www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Zoë Wicomb obituary
South African-Scottish author admired for her first book You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town, a collection of short stories
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Amid the tributes I had missed this one, by Derek Attridge, a long-term supporter of Zoë Wicomb and a co-editor, with Kai Easton, of the Routledge book about her -- 'Zoë Wicomb and the Translocal' #SouthAfrica #writing www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
A terrific selection here. Includes one poem and a mention of the newly expanded collected Lynette Roberts from Carcanet.
I chose seven poems from new books I’ve been enjoying recently. They’re quite wintry and Welsh substack.com/home/post/p-...
Pinks #38: A Crop of Frost
A week of poems from books I'm enjoying
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November 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM
A terrific selection here. Includes one poem and a mention of the newly expanded collected Lynette Roberts from Carcanet.
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I was super pleased to find the Lesser Calamint, Clinopodium nepata, still in flower at Lesnes Abbey (LB Bexley) on Tuesday. I thought I had missed it for this year. It has a delicious minty aroma. #WildflowerHour
November 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I was super pleased to find the Lesser Calamint, Clinopodium nepata, still in flower at Lesnes Abbey (LB Bexley) on Tuesday. I thought I had missed it for this year. It has a delicious minty aroma. #WildflowerHour
Stanislav Kolíbal (b.1925) is a compelling sculptor growing out of the constructive traditions but whose work develops intriguingly, 80s and since. For #NottingHill pedestrians and for those who still like #concrete, is the coffrage for the work that forms part of the Czecholavakia Embassy, 1968.
November 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Stanislav Kolíbal (b.1925) is a compelling sculptor growing out of the constructive traditions but whose work develops intriguingly, 80s and since. For #NottingHill pedestrians and for those who still like #concrete, is the coffrage for the work that forms part of the Czecholavakia Embassy, 1968.
Hisham Matar's essay on Titian's Flaying of Marsyas (in context of other works), and on Abu Ghraib, Gaza, cruelty and humiliation. The essay ends with an account of one image in particular produced by an Israeli soldier.
Hisham Matar on a Renaissance master: Diana and Actaeon ... records the moment Actaeon startles Diana and her nymphs, sealing his fate. His shadow falls on the scene, as though Titian is suggesting that, innocent or not, the act of looking implicates the viewer. www.equator.org/articles/pit...
November 23, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Hisham Matar's essay on Titian's Flaying of Marsyas (in context of other works), and on Abu Ghraib, Gaza, cruelty and humiliation. The essay ends with an account of one image in particular produced by an Israeli soldier.
minor literature[s] looks like it has longevity as an edited space for original writing, reviews and responses, and for experimental writing traditions to meet social claims. Alongside @equatormag.bsky.social it is one of the new enterprises I like and am learning from, in these dark etc
ALSO! Monthly Dispatch #29 — ft. everything we published in November (and more!) — goes out Friday ...
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minor literatures ; stuttering cultures. Click to read minor literature[s], a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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November 23, 2025 at 9:16 AM
minor literature[s] looks like it has longevity as an edited space for original writing, reviews and responses, and for experimental writing traditions to meet social claims. Alongside @equatormag.bsky.social it is one of the new enterprises I like and am learning from, in these dark etc
Poem about a street sweeper I forgot I had written. Complete text is in alt text for image 1
November 23, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Poem about a street sweeper I forgot I had written. Complete text is in alt text for image 1
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anyone else quietly building a stack of books for strictly non-work holiday reading already?
if so, what’s on it?
if so, what’s on it?
November 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
anyone else quietly building a stack of books for strictly non-work holiday reading already?
if so, what’s on it?
if so, what’s on it?
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Wonderful obituary for South African writer Zoë Wicomb here, in good company with the late Geoffrey Bindman.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Last Word - Baroness Newlove, Zoe Wicomb, Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC, Professor Roland Paxton - BBC Sounds
Matthew Bannister on a campaigner, an author, a lawyer and a civil engineer.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Cleveland Street Workhouse, 1775-78, latterly part of Middlesex Hospital, London: scrubbed, bleached, repointed. The postcard is from 1930, the year in which workhouses were formally abolished. #ArchitecturalHistory #Hospitals
November 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Cleveland Street Workhouse, 1775-78, latterly part of Middlesex Hospital, London: scrubbed, bleached, repointed. The postcard is from 1930, the year in which workhouses were formally abolished. #ArchitecturalHistory #Hospitals
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In an article originally published by @versobooks.bsky.social, Vashti editor Kate Greenberg reflects on the impending demolition of the village of Umm al-Khair. www.vashtimedia.com/umm-al-khair...
The death that keeps on going
Months after the murder of activist Awdah Hathaleen, Israel's plan to demolish Umm al-Khair exposes a ruthless new level of impunity in the West Bank.
www.vashtimedia.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:36 AM
In an article originally published by @versobooks.bsky.social, Vashti editor Kate Greenberg reflects on the impending demolition of the village of Umm al-Khair. www.vashtimedia.com/umm-al-khair...
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Went to see North Shields’ new Mary Ann Macham statue this morning.
I love that she’s looking out to the mouth of the Tyne, signalling Shields’ maritime histories and those who arrived from distant ports.
She clearly echoes too the other ship figureheads in the town, our “wooden dollies”.
I love that she’s looking out to the mouth of the Tyne, signalling Shields’ maritime histories and those who arrived from distant ports.
She clearly echoes too the other ship figureheads in the town, our “wooden dollies”.
November 21, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Went to see North Shields’ new Mary Ann Macham statue this morning.
I love that she’s looking out to the mouth of the Tyne, signalling Shields’ maritime histories and those who arrived from distant ports.
She clearly echoes too the other ship figureheads in the town, our “wooden dollies”.
I love that she’s looking out to the mouth of the Tyne, signalling Shields’ maritime histories and those who arrived from distant ports.
She clearly echoes too the other ship figureheads in the town, our “wooden dollies”.
Fascinating and woeful insights into how the final texts are arrived at from Aruna Chandrasekhar. #COP30
Tripling adaptation finance goal: we've gone from "decides", "urges" and "acknowledges" from the v1.0 options, to "calls", the weakest verb in between.
L: Mutirão text v2.0.
R: Mutirão text v1.0.
L: Mutirão text v2.0.
R: Mutirão text v1.0.
November 21, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Fascinating and woeful insights into how the final texts are arrived at from Aruna Chandrasekhar. #COP30
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'Is it less possible to raise an A1 community in a properly planned township of flats than in a garden city or suburb?', City Architect Lancelot Keay, 1935. New on Substack, my post on Liverpool's interwar multi-storey tenement housing:
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/liverpools...
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/liverpools...
November 20, 2025 at 8:38 AM
'Is it less possible to raise an A1 community in a properly planned township of flats than in a garden city or suburb?', City Architect Lancelot Keay, 1935. New on Substack, my post on Liverpool's interwar multi-storey tenement housing:
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/liverpools...
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/liverpools...
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Between the Sainsbury's carpark & the flashy new builds wedged into the corner that Dalston Lane turns south then west there's a grudging concession of a walkway that allows you to short cut the main road. I say short. Citymapper pretends it's not there & maybe it's a false economy but it's nicer
November 20, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Between the Sainsbury's carpark & the flashy new builds wedged into the corner that Dalston Lane turns south then west there's a grudging concession of a walkway that allows you to short cut the main road. I say short. Citymapper pretends it's not there & maybe it's a false economy but it's nicer
I miss old architecture Twitter -- am here, usually first thing, for low to medium level architecture/urban/ walking chat, usually with a London focus, not always serious. Where are your best places for #nipping ?
#Nipping is an important part of good public architecture. Dodging the congested bits, getting where you want not where the signs want or channel you. Everyone likes to nip, and has their own preferences for nipping, their secret (ish) public ways they like to show & share with other people.
November 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM
I miss old architecture Twitter -- am here, usually first thing, for low to medium level architecture/urban/ walking chat, usually with a London focus, not always serious. Where are your best places for #nipping ?
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In which I recommend @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social's THE MASTER OF CONTRADICTIONS to lovers and new readers of Thomas Mann's THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Thomas Mann’s Pessimistic Humanism
What can we still learn from the The Magic Mountain?
www.thenation.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
In which I recommend @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social's THE MASTER OF CONTRADICTIONS to lovers and new readers of Thomas Mann's THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
The side bit of Victoria Station (1906-08, Sir Charles Morgan) is slightly less bombastic than the front and has two good passages for nipping out the side. I love the way it glows green after dark with the light from Wicked: the musical opposite. #London #Architecture #Edwardian
November 19, 2025 at 9:11 AM
The side bit of Victoria Station (1906-08, Sir Charles Morgan) is slightly less bombastic than the front and has two good passages for nipping out the side. I love the way it glows green after dark with the light from Wicked: the musical opposite. #London #Architecture #Edwardian
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"Despite being the second-largest rainforest on Earth – and one of the most vital carbon sinks – the Congo basin remains the rainforest the world forgot, often overlooked when it comes to global climate policy and funding."
The rainforest the world forgot: the Congo basin is the second largest on Earth, so why is it being neglected?
It is one of the world’s most vital carbon sinks, but this tropical rainforest is losing out when it comes to climate policy and funding
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
"Despite being the second-largest rainforest on Earth – and one of the most vital carbon sinks – the Congo basin remains the rainforest the world forgot, often overlooked when it comes to global climate policy and funding."